Building Bridges: To Succeed, We Must Often Fail

Published: January 29, 2016

The 4th McMaster Department of Surgery Building Bridges Research Conference was held on Wednesday, January 27th at the University Club. The day featured speakers from across the department discussing the theme "To Succeed, We Must Often Fail", and included Dr's Mohit Bhandari, Peter Lovrics, Yaron Shargall, Michael Gupta and Brad Petrisor.

Dr. Petrisor highlighted the importance of a flexible mindset when faced with adversities in your career and life, and focusing on what you can do to overcome these obstacles as opposed to merely thinking that you cannot accomplish your goals. His talk also illustrated that focusing on the process you are taking to success, and not solely on the end goal, will help create the building blocks required to be successful in any endeavour you undertake.